Monday, November 28, 2016

Trump picks El Chapo to run the DEA

Borowitz satirizes how all Trump's picks, while claiming to drain the swamp, do exactly the opposite. So why not a drug lord to lead the DEA? It's in keeping with Trump's other hypocritical picks.

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Just
days after picking Betsy DeVos to run the Department of Education,
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped another wealthy outsider by
naming Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to head the Drug Enforcement
Administration.

In an official
statement, Trump said that El Chapo’s “tremendous success in the private
sector” showed that he has what it takes to “shake things up” at the
D.E.A.

Trump’s appointment of the
former drug lord surprised many in Washington, in no small part because
acrimony between the two allegedly prompted El Chapo, in 2015, to put a
hundred-million-dollar bounty on Trump’s head.

But,
appearing on CNN, the Trump surrogate Kellyanne Conway said that the
selection of El Chapo should surprise no one. “Mr. Trump always said
that he would surround himself with the best people,” she said.

When
asked why Trump had readily offered a job to El Chapo while still
mulling the fate of another former adversary, Mitt Romney, Conway said,
“El Chapo might not have voted for Mr. Trump, but that’s because he’s
Mexican and in jail, and Mitt Romney is neither.”

The
appointment of the former drug kingpin is far from a done deal,
however, as associates of El Chapo report that he is “concerned” that
being a member of the Trump Administration would be bad for his brand.